 When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the...  Littell's Living Age - Pagina 2481866Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1811 - 456 pagina’s
...ale, As long as their neighbour's lasted. * Kale, Broth. NOTES TO CANTO II. Note I. When silver edge! the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die. — P. 44, The buttresses, ranged along the sides of the ruins of Melrose Abbey, are, according to... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pagina’s
...the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ;...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; 2 When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pagina’s
...the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
 | 1838 - 884 pagina’s
...the guy beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ;...and ivory ; When silver edges the Imagery, And the scroll) that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard (o rnve, And the owlet to hoot... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 376 pagina’s
...gay beams of lightsome day " Gild but to flout, the ruins gray. " When the broken arches are black in night, " And each shafted Oriel glimmers white; " When the cold light's uncertain shower, " Xfreaais on the ruined central tower ; " Whe-J butlress and buttress alternately, " Seeui framed... | |
 | 1828 - 454 pagina’s
...And each shafted oriel glimmer* white; When the void light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory ;" but to see it as a traveller ought to see it; to be able to examine its minor beauties; to view... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pagina’s
...For the gay heams of lightsome day Gild hut to flout the ruins gray. When the hroken arches are hlack in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ;...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When huttress and huttress, alternately, Seem framed of ehon and ivory; When... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 pagina’s
...glimmers wliite ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower • ff'hen buttress and buttress , alternately , Seem framed...ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls tJiat teach thee to live and die ; lVlien distant Tweed in heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 pagina’s
...the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When... | |
 | Fabius (pseud.) - 1821 - 112 pagina’s
...cold light's uncertain shower, Seem framed of ebon and ivory, When buttress and buttress alternately, When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that...live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, Then go—but go alone the while, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then view St. David's... | |
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